US security consultancy Red Canary says it’s found MacOS malware written specifically for the shiny new M1 silicon that Apple created to power its post-Intel Macs.
Red Canary has named the malware “Silver Sparrow” and says it had found its way onto almost 30,000 MacOS devices as of February 17th.
Red Canary’s post says it has analysed two samples of the malware, one targeting x86 and the other targeting X86 and Apple’s own M1 silicon. The form says both samples “leverage the macOS Installer JavaScript API to execute suspicious commands.” That’s not unusual behaviour for a legitimate software installer package, but Red Canary says it’s not spotted it in malware before.
Once the scripts run, a Mac will have two new and nasty files one of which phones home to the malware’s a ..
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